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Opinion
Hays: Software today mirrors 1990s office hardware facing the internet
“I said a lot of the software market feels like the office equipment and imaging sector in the nineties. So companies like Sharp, Canon, Panasonic. Revenue was still up and to the right, but widespread adoption of the internet emails and PDFs was on the horizon…”
Jordi Hays Feb 14, 2026 ▶ 8:39 Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
Opinion
Hays: Today's Software Market Parallels 1990s Office Equipment Sector Before Disruption
“A lot of the software market feels like the office equipment and imaging sector in the nineties. So companies like Sharp, Canon, Panasonic, revenue was still up into the right, but widespread adoption of the internet emails and PDFs was on the horizon.”
Jordi Hays Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 12:03 Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
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